The Guardian October 9, 2002


Help expose NATO lies

Urgent Message from Sloboda (Freedom) Association and the International 
Committee to Defend Slobodan Milosevic (ICDSM)!

The Freedom Association in Belgrade and the ICDSM, based outside 
Yugoslavia, are the two organisations formed at the request of Slobodan 
Milosevic to aid in his defence.

Up until now our main work has been threefold. We have publicised the truth 
about The Hague's phoney trial. We have organised research to help 
President Milosevic expose NATO's lies. And we have initiated legal action 
in the Dutch and European Courts.

Now our job has increased. The defence phase of the "trial" starts in May 
2003. No longer will Mr Milosevic be limited to cross-examining Hague 
witnesses.

The prosecution will be forced further onto the defensive as victims of 
NATO's aggression and experts from Yugoslavia and the NATO countries tell 
what really happened and expose media lies. Moreover, Mr. Milosevic will 
call leaders, from East and West, some friendly and some hostile to the 
truth.

The controlled mass media will undoubtedly try to suppress this testimony 
as they have tried to suppress Mr Milosevic's cross-examinations.

Nevertheless this phase of the "trial" will be the biggest international 
forum ever to expose NATO's use of racism, violence and lies to attack 
Yugoslavia.

We urgently need the help of all people who care about what is happening in 
The Hague. Right now, Nico Steijnen, the Dutch lawyer in the ICDSM, is 
waging legal battles in the Dutch courts and before the European Court. 
These efforts urgently require financial support.

We now maintain a small staff of Yugoslav lawyers in Holland, assisting and 
advising Mr Milosevic full-time. We need to expand our Dutch facilities, 
perhaps bringing in a non-Yugoslav attorney full-time.

Definitely we must guarantee that we have an office and office manager 
available at all times, to compile and process evidence and for meetings 
with witnesses and lawyers and as a base for organising press conferences.

All this costs money. And for this, we rely on those who want Mr Milosevic 
to have the best possible support for attacking NATO's lies.

Here's how you can help:

You can contribute by credit card. By the end of September we will have an 
ICDSM secure server so you can contribute directly on the Internet.

For now, you can contribute by credit card in two ways:

You can contribute by Credit Card over the telephone by calling:
ICDSM office, USA: ++ 1 617 916-1705
SLOBODA (Freedom) Association office, Belgrade: 381 63 279 819

You can contribute using PayPal at:
https://www.paypal.com/xclick/business=icdsm%40aol.com
PayPal accepts VISA and MasterCard

You can contribute by mail to:
ICDSM
831 Beacon St., #295
Newton Centre, MA 02459 (USA)

Thank you!

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